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    All Renewables Will Be Cost Competitive With Fossil Fuels by 2020

    All Renewables Will Be Cost Competitive With Fossil Fuels by 2020

    Generating electricity from renewable energy sources is not only better for the environment compared to fossil fuels, but it will also be consistently cheaper in just a few years, according to a new report. According to a cost analysis from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the best onshore wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) projects […]

    Costa Rica Runs Entirely on Renewable Energy for 300 Days

    Costa Rica Runs Entirely on Renewable Energy for 300 Days

    Costa Rica has charted another clean energy accolade. So far this year, the Central American country has run on 300 days of 100 percent power generation from renewable energy sources, according to the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE), which cited figures from the National Center for Energy Control. With six weeks left of 2017 […]

    Here’s How 139 Countries Can Convert to 100% Renewable Energy by 2050

    Here’s How 139 Countries Can Convert to 100% Renewable Energy by 2050

    Two years ago, Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson and his collaborators published a widely circulated study that detailed how the U.S. can eliminate nuclear, biofuels and fossil fuels and transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Now, in a paper published Wednesday in the new scientific journal Joule, Jacobson and 26 co-authors created clean […]